Genealogy of the Son of Man
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Tamar.
To accommodate solitary web searches, this paragraph and the following paragraph is redundant in each of the chapters of the four biblical women mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. In your search for Truth, it would be prudent to click on all of the highlighted links.
This treatise on Rahab is a continuation of thoughtful research, initiated in the beginning chapter The Biblical Women in the Genealogy of Jesus Christ. The Truth confirms that the Covenant WORD of God spoken by Elohim in the Garden of Eden is unchangeable and His WORD is fulfilled within the Last Adam, Jesus Christ, for He is the Only Begotten Son of God. Consider the genetic lineage of these four women Tamar, Rahab, Ruth and Bathsheba, and understand absolutely that they are each in the lineage of the pure genetics of the first Adam taken from Adam's side, as Ishshah/Woman, and not of the satanically mingled and corrupted genetics of the wife of Ham.
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing (matter): but the honor of kings is to search out a matter. (Proverbs 25 verse 2.)
But we speak the Wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden Wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the (satanic) princes of this world knew, for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. But God has revealed His Wisdom unto us by His Spirit: For God's Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of Yahweh God (See 1st Corinthians 2 verse 7 thru 11.) Forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, such as silver and gold, as received by your empty traditions from your fathers. But you were redeemed with the Precious Life giving Blood of Christ/Messiah, shed as a Lamb without blemish and spot, Who was foreordained even before the foundation of the world, and He is revealed in these last times for you. (See 1st Peter1 verse 19 thru 21.)
Judah, being Leah's fourth son from Jacob, unknowingly would be selected by God, to continue Abraham's genetic lineage of man that would end with the promised Messiah, being the generational Son of Man, and the only begotten Son of God. However, when Judah and his brothers sold Joseph to the Midianites, Judah, then left his other guilty brothers behind, and went south, so as to assuage and hide from his own guilt. And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. (Genesis 38 verse 1.) The name of Hirah means "noble race or noble family" having a sense of splendor. Now consider that beforehand, God Himself, changed the name of Abraham's wife Sarai, meaning princess, to that of Sarah, having the meaning "noble woman". A fuller understanding of the meaning of Sarah's God given name, attest to her "having been assigned power". Sarah, like her husband Abraham, as a son in the perfect genetic lineage of Noah, was perfect in her generations, carrying the seed of Ishshah/Woman, the original first name of the wife of Adam/Man. The Creation Power of the Salvation Word of God was in Sarah, and God would bring to fruition that which the Almighty has spoken.
It would be apparent that Hirah, although living in the town of Adullam, would have been known before hand by Judah, and probably would have been very familiar to the family of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, if not part of it. We suggest that when you come to the end of this investigation that the name that is tied to the noble family of Hirah, will logically have importance significance.
It is in the town of Adullam, where Judah, looking to ease and distract his conscience, sees and took for himself the daughter of a certain Canaanite man. The scripture's, transliterated into English, are some what ambiguous as to whether the Canaanite man is named Shuah or his daughter. The Septuagint implies that the daughter of the Canaanite man is named Sava. In any case, the blood line of the daughter is Canaanite.
When the Canaanite's daughter conceived of Judah, she gave birth to a son, and then she became Judah's wife. When the Canaanite wife of Judah, gave birth to Judah's first born son, Judah called his name Er. Judah's wife then again conceived, and bore another son for Judah, whom she named Onan. Then finally, the wife of Judah conceived a last time, and delivered a son, while Judah was in Chezib, the town having a meaning of "false" with a root of "a liar". I wonder what Judah was doing in Chezib, while his wife was pregnant and giving birth to their youngest son. Apparently, while Judah was tending to his own personal business, his wife, being alone, named Judah's son Shelah . (See Genesis 38 verse 2 thru 5.)
On the Map, Chezib is noted by the red pinpoint, and by its other name as Aczib. Also, on the map, we can see its relative proximity to the two other towns of Adullam and Timnah that are in the scripture narrative.
When Er, the eldest son, was of age, Judah sought a wife for him, and her name was Tamar. Tamar's name means palm trees, and the palm or date trees were noted to grow especially well and upright in the area of Engedi and Adullam. It is interesting that Tamar's family lineage is not mentioned in the scriptural account, but only surmised by theologians. However, as the story continues, it is revealed that God, in seeing the wickedness of Er, destroys the son of the Canaanite woman, even before Er could consummate the marriage with Tamar. Then, as the custom of the land would have it, Judah said unto his son Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to your brother. But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother’s wife [Tamar] he spilled his semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother. It is written that the thing which Onan did was evil in the sight of Jehovah: and He slew him [Onan] also. A brother raising seed or a male child unto a deceased brother's name through the dead brother's wife, seems to have been the custom of the land. Apparently the custom was established to protect the women, who had no rights of inheritance, except through a male child, who had the name of his father. Certainly at this time, the Torah had not been written, giving this instruction, but God may have verbally established this understanding with Abraham. It is doubtful that Onan spilling his semen on the ground, was the only reason that God YHWH also killed Onan. More than likely, even as it was with his Brother Er, the displeasure that God had with Onan, had more to do with the wickedness that God sees in the genetic seed of Onan, which is of Canaanite blood, making Onan of a slave nation controlled by the wickedness of the devil, himself. There is nothing that Satan would not do, so as to destroy the credibility of the Word of God made in the Garden of Eden, and thereby saving himself with what he originally thought would bring an end to God's Covenant promise made in the Garden of Eden. (Read the full account in Genesis 38 verse 1 thru 12.) If God's Covenant Word was not fulfilled, then Satan's exalted will would come to fruition. (See Isaiah 14 verse 12 thru 15.)
In case you haven't noticed, that with Elohim's judgment
of the first two sons of Judah, there must be something special that is not
yet revealed in Tamar and her own family lineage. Witness for yourselves that
Elohim (God), in protecting His Covenant Word given in the Garden, slayed the two Canaanite sons of Judah.
His righteous judgment against evil was enacted to protect the genetic seed of
Ishshah/Woman that would destroy the corrupting works of Satan.
Now Judah, seeing that his first two sons have prematurely died in their marriage to Tamar
and without leaving any offspring, is fearful that the same fate of death would happen unto his
youngest son Shelah. So then Judah lies to Tamar, as he insinuates
that when Shelah, his younger son, would have matured, the two of them would marry, but
until that time, Judah tells his daughter in law, Tamar, to go to her
father's house and remain there a widow. Tamar is obedient, and dresses in
garments that depict her widow's status. (See
Genesis
38 verse 11.)
After Judah's Canaanite wife dies, and he
has peace within his mind, he decides to go to Timnath, to have his sheep
sheared. His friend Hirah, of a noble race, and from the town of
Adullam, is to go with Judah.
And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold, thy father-in-law [Judah] goes up to Timnah to shear his sheep. Now with a detectives mind, who is it
that would
have been the first to know that Judah was going to Temnah? Who would
have been the one that informed the obedient Tamar of her father in law's
plans? What was the family name of Tamar's father, and can his true
lineage be known? Tamar, on hearing of Judah's plans, and knowing of her dead end
situation with Shelah, Judah's youngest son, Tamar then removes her widow's clothes,
and conceals herself in the garments of a harlot. Tamar immediately
leaves her father's house, and journeys the distance to Temnah. Upon finding an open place
along the way just
outside the town of Temnah, Tamar waits for Judah to arrive, as he and his
friend Hirah drive his sheep on the way to the shearers. When
Judah saw her [Tamar], he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered
her face. He turned to her at the roadside and said, “Come, let me
come in to you”, for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law.
Tamar said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?” Judah
answered, “I will send you a young lamb from the flock.” And Tamar in
agreeing said, “If you give me a pledge, until you send the young lamb"
He said, “What pledge shall I give you?” She replied,
“Your signet and your bracelet and your staff that is in your
hand.” So Judah gave them to her, and went in to her [in the open field],
and she conceived by him. While the coupling was taking
place on the side of the road way, Hirah, of a noble family, knowing of
Judah's personal business, would have been tending the flock, and would not have known
that the woman was Tamar, the widow of Judah's sons. Then after
business had been concluded, Tamar arose and went away, [to her father's
house] and taking off
her veil she [again] put on the garments of her widowhood.
Apparently, the father of Tamar was not there at his home, so as to have
noticed that his daughter would have been missing for a time, and so was oblivious
to her return to his home, and the change of her garments. After Judah had conducted the business of the shearing of his flock, he sent
his friend Hirah with a sheared kid into Temnah to retrieve Judah's personal
pledge from the woman that was assumed to be a harlot. In Temnah,
no one of the town knew of a harlot, and Hirah not finding the woman returns
to Judah with the sheared kid, and to Judah's embarrassment, there was the loss of his
personal identification. Not wanting to further compound the
embarrassment, Judah, in that affect, tells Hirah: Let her keep the personal
identification, less we both be put to shame. (Genesis
38 verse 11 thru 23.)
And it came to pass about three
months later, that Judah was told: "Tamar thy daughter in law has played
the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by her whoredom". And Judah
said: "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt". Think on this;
Tamar, an unwed, twice widowed woman of Judah's sons, was found to be
pregnant in the house of her father, thereby putting the father's house and
his noble name to shame. Now, it had to be a disgraced father of the
house that would have informed Judah, his friend and the father in law of
Tamar, of her supposed infidelity that would disgrace even Judah's house and
his name. Both, the house of Tamar's father, and the house of Judah
the father in law, would be put to shame. Tamar was to be put out of both, her father's house and also
Judah's house, and then she was to be burnt on her forehead with the sign of
a whore. When Tamar was brought forth from her father's noble house by her
shamed father, she then sent to Judah, her father in law, the signs of his
personal identification, saying, "By the man, whose these are, am I with
child": and she said, "Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet,
and bracelets, and staff". And Judah acknowledged the signet,
and the bracelets and his staff, as belonging to him, and said, "She has
been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son".
And Judah never had intimate relations with Tamar ever again. (Genesis
38 verse 24 thru 26.) The true players in this human drama for
life, have no understanding of God's Covenant Promise in the Garden, and of
His divine protection of a daughter of the Abrahamic Covenant.
Tamar, through her father's noble family of Hirah, is of the
legitimate Shemitic lineage that would be of the house of the patriarch Terah
, the father of Abram
אַבְרָם,
Nahor and Haran
And it came to
pass in the time that Tamar was to give birth, that, behold, twins were in
her womb.
And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one sibling put out his
hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a
scarlet thread, saying,
This came out first. And it came to pass, as he drew back his
hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and the midwife said, How hast
thou broken forth? This breach [birth] is because of thee: therefore his name was
called Pharez. And afterward came out his brother, that had the
scarlet thread upon
his hand: and his name was called Zarah
Listen to Jacob/Israel's prophesy of his son Judah: Thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: Thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies: Thy father's children shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion's whelp, from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion, who shall rouse him up? The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto Him shall the gathering of the people be. Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine, he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. (Genesis 49 verse 8 thru 12.) Israel's prophesy to his son, not only speaks of the strength of Judah and his offspring, but speaks of God's Promised Messiah, Who will come from the loins of Judah's 2 children in the lineage of Jacob\Israel, and his genetic lineage back to Shem, and will continue forward in time to produce God's Promised seed from Ishshah/Woman, that will become the incarnate Son of God, the Savior of man kind, Who will gather all peoples unto Himself.
To continue to the next chapter, please click on Rahab, and the Scarlet Thread.
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